Dave Dwyer
review: King Charles at Club NME, Portsmouth
Lists, lists and more lists, this time of year is full of them. Lists telling you who you need to hear, what albums (most of which are still unrecorded) will change your life, un-booked gig’s you will have to be at and countless lists of bands with slightly quirky names who are guaranteed to be [...]
review: Bastille & Mojo Fury at POP Southampton
If you believe everything you read on the internet, Bastille are going to be THE band to watch in 2012, and judging by the set they played at POP! recently, you’d be hard pressed to disagree with all the bloggers. Playing to a crowd that is pretty much a 50/50 split of South Coast taste-makers and well [...]
review: I Dream In Colour – Strangest Place
Having made a strong impression in the South this summer with sell out gigs in Portsmouth, Southampton and a triumphant set at Blissfields, Essex based I Dream in Colour are finally releasing debut single ‘Strangest Place‘ next month. Starting with a Doves style drum beat and a intricate piano line, the track is clearly a step [...]
Review: Roddy Woomble at The Point, Eastleigh
A fresh and re-invigorated Roddy Woomble paid a visit to Eastleigh as part of his current UK tour. Seemingly freed from the shackles of his previous band Idlewild, this was a performance of a man who appears to be finally making the music he loves and is played out to a crowd who hangs on his [...]
Review: Marcus Foster at The Joiners
Indoor gig’s in the middle of the festival season are weird things, and when Marcus Foster comes blinking into the joiners, looking every bit the amalgamation of his hero’s, you can tell he thinks the same “This is the most bizarre show I think I’ve ever done, I actually feel really disorientated. We’ve done [...]
review: Larmer Tree Festival 2011
Never let it be said that we at Mintsouth can’t (or won’t) admit to being wrong. With that in mind I’ll hold my hands up and apologise to Larmer Tree Festival, last year I was miles out. You see, last year, the biblical rain, distinct lack of music in the daytime, and press support staff who [...]
Review: Frank Turner – England Keep My Bones
It’s fair to say no-one could ever accuse Frank Turner of being lazy. A year spent almost exclusively on tour and he’s still found time to put together his fourth, and probably strongest, album. It’s no real surprise either that the main theme of the album is a reflection on being away from home. Not [...]
Review/mINterview: Jamie Woon at The Brook
Coming fourth in BBC’s sound of 2011 poll, being hyped by everyone from Mistajam to Greg James and adding yourself to the raft of Brit school graduates gaining monumental success at the moment is going to add pressure to anyone. Put a seminal remix on top of that by one of dance musics leading innovators [...]
Review: Frank Turner at Southampton Guildhall
If there is a venue on the south coast that is colder than Southampton Guildhall I’m yet to find it. Coats, hats, scarf’s and layers are the choices for the majority tonight, and after a mid afternoon tweet from tonight’s headline act apologising for the state of his voice and cursing the mid tour illness [...]
Review: Frank Turner – Rock & Roll EP
I’ve never been one to shy away from my love of Winchester’s Frank Turner. From his days fronting the ear splitting Million Dead through the ‘Folk Troubadour’ times when armed with nothing but an acoustic guitar, a train ticket and bucket loads of charm he would play to any who would spare an ear to [...]
Review: Plan B at Southampton Guildhall
Plan B is one of them tricky fella’s isnt he. Obviously hugely talented having already released two massivly different albums and appeared in a major film. Theoretically he should be one of the underground gone mainstream success stories we should all be celebrating. Unfortunatley, for me personally, all the success has seemed far to planned [...]
Review: Fun Lovin Criminals at Salisbury City Hall
Provincial gigs are weird things, look at almost every tour itinerary and you will see gig’s in Bristol, Southampton or Portsmouth. See a gig listed in Salisbury and you start to wonder why. Are the band really hungry to play anywhere and everywhere or are they a band on the way down who have exhausted [...]
Review: Bestival 2010 (Day 3)
Oh Sunday how we love you! The pain, the tiredness, the vague memory of sliding though fifteen metres of mud on your bum in the early hours of the morning, and then the horrible realisation that its all coming to an end and we will all be travelling back to reality really soon. As it [...]
Review: Bestival 2010 (Day 2)
2am Friday night, me to Rob after far to many Bulmers. ‘I’ll tell you what would be a really good idea, why don’t I get the review of Friday written up tomorrow morning so we can get it up by lunchtime!’ ‘Yeah, do it, that would be amazing!’ Of all the stupid things I have [...]
Review: Bestival 2010 (Day 1)
So, mINtSOUTH’s summer tour has reached its penultimate destination, Robin Hill Country park on the Isle of Wight for Bestival 2010. Ever prepared as we are the decision was made to leave Southampton on the 7am Ferry on Thursday to try and avoid the crowd. Seemingly a fair number of festival goers had the same [...]